Pro Met Tags

chadtm80 · #1 Postby **chadtm80** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 11:00 am

Pro Met tags are reserved for Professional Meteorologists that have been approved through Marshall and Myself.. Anyone who takes it upo themselves to use our pro met tag or Any pro met tag at all will be IMMEDIATELY and permanently banned from storm2k and our entire server, witch would include Tropicalupdate.com, Hurricaneproject.com, and radio.NHCWX.com.. Plus emails will be sent to every site even remotely related to weather and they will be informed that you are trying to pull one over.. This is not a threat, its a promise and something we take VERY seriously..

Thanks,
Marshall and Chad

Guest · #2 Postby **Guest** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 11:10 am

I am not sure if this is possible on this board, but I have seen some sites that wish to protect copying or accessing the properties actually prevent the short-cut menu from popping up. Instead, a dialog box appears informing the user that copying is prohibited.

Perhaps it can be done with the special titles, such as the Pro-Met, Moderator, etc.

I just looked at this thread, and omg, if one wanted to they would just simply add one of those special tags, after going through a couple of EASY steps.

SHAME on those that steal the idenity of our administration, mets, moderators, etc!! :

mf_dolphin · #3 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 11:18 am

The easy way to spot fakes is that they will have the normal rank badge plus the ProMet Badge as an avatar. For now we have disabled off-site avatars to prevent this from happening. It was GreatOne who did this which is typical for him to try and represent himself as something he's not. Sorry for the inconvience.

Guest · #4 Postby **Guest** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 11:24 am

mf_dolphin wrote:The easy way to spot fakes is that they will have the normal rank badge plus the ProMet Badge as an avatar. For now we have disabled off-site avatars to prevent this from happening. It was GreatOne who did this which is typical for him to try and represent himself as something he's not. Sorry for the inconvience.

It's okay!

You have to do what you can to prevent abuse!!

cyclonaut · #5 Postby **cyclonaut** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 2:03 pm

mf_dolphin wrote:The easy way to spot fakes is that they will have the normal rank badge plus the ProMet Badge as an avatar. For now we have disabled off-site avatars to prevent this from happening. It was GreatOne who did this which is typical for him to try and represent himself as something he's not. Sorry for the inconvience.

Figures

& after I took some time to search the net & put together a nice little collection of avatars.

That Great One is a Cat 5 buffoon! :grrr:

#6 Postby **Andrew92** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 2:21 pm

I noticed that this morning that there was a "Pro Met" icon underneath someone's rank and thought it was just a bug. I should have guessed it was Not-So-Great One! :grr:

For ANYONE to slip that low and put the logo for a forecaster, moderator, or an admin as their avatar just to make them look better than what they are, is just downright shameful. Nothing less than shameful.

-Andrew92

chadtm80 · #7 Postby **chadtm80** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:57 pm

cyclonaut wrote:
mf_dolphin wrote:The easy way to spot fakes is that they will have the normal rank badge plus the ProMet Badge as an avatar. For now we have disabled off-site avatars to prevent this from happening. It was GreatOne who did this which is typical for him to try and represent himself as something he's not. Sorry for the inconvience.

Figures & after I took some time to search the net & put together a nice little collection of avatars.

That Great One is a Cat 5 buffoon!

cyclaonaut feel free to email me your avatar at work (I will PM you my email addy as I don't want it to be public knowlage) and I will be more the happy to store it for you on our server :-)

This offer goes for anyone as long as the avatar fits with in our TOS.. Just PM me :-)

chadtm80 · #8 Postby **chadtm80** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:58 pm

Andrew92 wrote:I noticed that this morning that there was a "Pro Met" icon underneath someone's rank and thought it was just a bug. I should have guessed it was Not-So-Great One!

For ANYONE to slip that low and put the logo for a forecaster, moderator, or an admin as their avatar just to make them look better than what they are, is just downright shameful. Nothing less than shameful.

-Andrew92

You use the word Shameful.. I use something a little more harsher :-)

lol

#9 Postby **Andrew92** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:05 pm

chadtm80 wrote:
Andrew92 wrote:I noticed that this morning that there was a "Pro Met" icon underneath someone's rank and thought it was just a bug. I should have guessed it was Not-So-Great One!

For ANYONE to slip that low and put the logo for a forecaster, moderator, or an admin as their avatar just to make them look better than what they are, is just downright shameful. Nothing less than shameful.

-Andrew92

You use the word Shameful.. I use something a little more harsher lol

I also said "nothing less" than shameful in my last sentence.

And I totally agree with you, I should have used something harsher....oh well.

-Andrew92

#10 Postby **TampaFl** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:56 pm

mf_dolphin wrote:The easy way to spot fakes is that they will have the normal rank badge plus the ProMet Badge as an avatar. For now we have disabled off-site avatars to prevent this from happening. It was GreatOne who did this which is typical for him to try and represent himself as something he's not. Sorry for the inconvience.

mf_dolphin", are you eventually going to put back on the off site avatars, or do we need to pm you with the avatar and you can put them on? Thanks for the help.

Robert

ohiostorm · #11 Postby **ohiostorm** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:56 pm

I like how it takes on idiot to ruin something. Hes been doing this way too long.

#12 Postby **EmeraldCoast1** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:07 am

chadtm80 wrote:Pro Met tags are reserved for Professional Meteorologists that have been approved through Marshall and Myself..

Exactly how do you verify the credentials of a so-called "professional". What qualifications and/or credentials are "required" for you to approve them to carry that name on this web forum?

Just curious.

mf_dolphin · #13 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:13 am

There are a number of ways that we verify credentials. Some have provided their credentials for us to verify and some are well known in the community. I can assure you that we don't give out those rank badges easily. :-)

#14 Postby **Cookiely** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:55 pm

Its not only shameful its downright dangerous. What if a newcomer to the board took something they forecast as gospel and acted accordingly. Thank you so much for taking steps to ban this practice. Also, thanks again for all the hard work the moderators and mets perform on this wonderful website.

Swimdude · #15 Postby **Swimdude** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:58 pm

Wow, rules such as these aren't made unless someone has recently broken it. Yikes! :eek:

Too many people wanting to cause chaos these days.

#16 Postby **dhweather** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:53 pm

Cookiely wrote:Its not only shameful its downright dangerous. What if a newcomer to the board took something they forecast as gospel and acted accordingly.

That is, by far, my biggest concern.

s2k get SLAMMED when a hurricane threatens the US. It's very taxing
for the mods to try to keep everything in check, especially when you
get a 10-20x spike in use of the board. One "digruntled poster" can
cause a great deal of chaos quickly.

SouthernWx · #17 Postby **SouthernWx** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:08 pm

Cookiely wrote:Its not only shameful its downright dangerous. What if a newcomer to the board took something they forecast as gospel and acted accordingly.

A couple of thoughts...

1) anyone who is a coastal resident or has interests along the U.S. coastline should only listen to one source when it comes to protection of life and property...that's the National Hurricane Center. I know there are some excellent and knowledgeble forecasters at Storm2k, both pro and amateur...but NHC is the best in the business; have been saving lives a very long time.

2) we are very blessed at Storm2k to have administrators with enough foresight to provide a special tropical forecasting forum for professional meteorologists and trusted amateur meteorologists whom they know are respected, responsible, reliable, and will give a professional and honest weather analysis at all times.

Hopefully someday "great one" will realize it isn't a pro met avatar or AMS seal of approval which merits respect on these weather forums....its instead the poster's ability, reliability, knowledge, and their keen recognition of responsibility when posting a hurricane analysis which earns respect.

PW

#18 Postby **dhweather** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:22 pm

Hopefully, someday, the "great one" will get the help he so desperately needs.

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